Black 1968

This book reveals the imperfectly documented and heretofore unrecognized bonds that led peoples of African descent around the world to articulate new global conceptions of Blackness as a way to mount local challenges to racism, segregation, colonialism, economic exploitation, generational authority, and cultural chauvinism.

Timothy Parsons is a social historian holding joint appoints in the departments of History and African and African American Studies at Washington University.